Rupe
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But yes I still think a good groundie gets paid more if they are running the job as many groundie do dictate the speed and efficiency of the whole job. Sobe of them of course are just there for dragging but that's not the same as a proper groundie.
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What I mean is how cone your doing 12 and groundie doing less?
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Where are you getting your 12hrs a day from?
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Groundie I meant
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A good grounding should be on more than a just qualified climber. Why do people think climbing is where the money is? Experience and reliability is where there money is and that can be on the ground or climbing .
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What the shoulder harness for the battery belt? How well does that work? Sounds like a good idea. Photos?
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Thanks for the offer. They look very skinny! I use a chester for srt and will use my shoulder strap thing for blocking stems only so it should work ok. The TM straps look not great for either. Thanks again for the offer but I'll let Tommy go for it.
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TM with decent chest harness would be good. I looked on line and found that a few people have fitted an tree austria duo chest harness with some success. For now I lust used a North Face shoulder strap from a bag ( you know how they come with clip on straps that no one uses and they all end up in the back of a cupboard!) It only goes over one shoulder opposite side from big saw and clips to front of harness on the same side as saw attachment. I'll get some pick. Not tried it yet!
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I was tempted to get one, even if it only got used for big take downs. The shoulder straps look good for holding a big saw in place. No one seems to have the straps in stock so the harness without them is just another harness. I've since made a should strap for my TM. Yet to test it but it should help when using a big saw.
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I'd prefer to see Trump interviewed by Paxman!!
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Sure, that's the plan. Have a beer after a big swim or cycle event. That's an enjoyable beer.
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Generally by the time a doctor tells someone to quit it's too late. But everyone has a different relationship with alcohol. I just know I can achieve more with less of it but the lazy part of me chooses the easier option too requently.
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Rubbish spell checking!!
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Well done. Total abstinence is a possible future plan, let's see how this year pans out. If I can do the things I want and enjoy a drink here a data there then allspice well. I don't go on massive drinking sprees or anything but a beer or 2 or 3 or 6 is so frequent that 2 days off a week is not always managed. Stopped smoking 10 years ago though. Not doing dry January as such but not had a drink this year yet. Not got an occasion to want to until 10th Feb so will see what happens then!!
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What's your drinking status now if you do the mind me asking? Not drinking is the best aid to fitness and wellbeing (of course ) but finding a happy balance is tricky. I plan to have a few beers every fortnight or after a particular event or celebrations of course but it soon returns to 4 or 5 nights a week!!
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Hopefully no actual poop in the pool, but yes the other facts are correct. I've swam in some rivers and lakes that are worse though as they don't have chlorine in to kill stuff off. I agree though. The indoor pools are not fun but it's training. I use 2 pools, one 33m public one 2miles from home but I mile from my lock up. And a 25m pool at a private school (800m from home) but that's no better. From April there is also a 50m outdoor (the only official Olympic distance outdoor pool in the country) and that's about 1mile from home and really nice except on mega hot days when it's packed and the water goes murky due to sun tan lotions etc.
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Pool swimming is like running on a treadmill but I go to coached sessions (and once a week just me doing my own thing) so it's broken down into sets of various paces and distance. Usually pyramids building and then decreasing distances. But it's all for open water when the season starts. May to September it's ok with a wetsuit. Got one 6km swim event booked but there will be plenty of others.
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If it really rooted over the boundary line then it might survive? Cut off whats on your clients side and leave it to it.
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10.5km swimming in last 7 days. Going good to be tough keeping that up!
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I'm on a see food diet. If I see food I eat it!!!
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As far as muscles are concerned, I've always been happy with whatever muscles develop from whatever activity I do. I don't see developing muscles as an activity in it'd own right but of course for others it is. If you eat tons and drink beer and climb trees you will build muscles, but they might be covered up. Swimming is stripping some fat very slowly (I only upped my frequency last November) and I think there's some muscles in there somewhere!!
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"My most successful body part to date...." Now that's a quote!! Not telling you what mine is!!
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And for the Op. Get your rigging kit, make yourself into the most indispensable climber you can be and then put your rate up everyday. But turning up early and being fit and skilled (and keen) is worth as much if not more than some fancy kit. What I look for in a climber is as much about someone doing 5hrs in a leylandii hedge without losing their sense of humour than it is about fancy kit. I don't have that quality myself anymore!!
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